PIT DISASTER.
SEVEN MEN KILLED.
TRUCKS BREAK AWAY.
(BI CABLE—PESSS ASSOCIATION* —COPYRIGHT.) (AU3TRAUA2J AND N.I. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, December 3. Many have been injured in a disaster in a coal pit in Sheffield. The scene of the accident was the Nunnery Colliery.
A train of 20 tubs, each containing about four men, was being drawn up aa inclined road from the pit bottom, when the rope snapped and the train dashed back at a terrific speed for several hundreds of yards. Tuba and passengers were hurled together into a piled mass. Rescue work is proceeding in the presence of .a great crowd. The number of dead is still unknown. Six mutilated and unrecognisable bodies have been recovered, and a dozen injured men have been sent to hospital. RESCUE WORK OYER. OVER FORTY CASUALTIES. (red-tee's telsgkams.) (Received December 4rh, 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, December 3. The Nunnery disaster is less serious than was previously anticipated. Rescuo work has been completed, and all the bodies have bc:n recovered except two that were laterally cut in half. The final list of casualties is sovon killed and 3G injured.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17938, 5 December 1923, Page 9
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